Jazz draft Australian point guard Exum

Dante Exum, left, hugs friends and family after being selected by the Utah Jazz as the fifth overall pick during the 2014 NBA draft, Thursday, June 26, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Dante Exum, right, poses for a photo with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver after being selected by the Utah Jazz as the fifth overall pick during the 2014 NBA draft, Thursday, June 26, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz selected Australian guard Dante Exum with the fifth overall pick in the NBA draft Thursday night.

The 6-foot-6 teenager burst onto the scene at the U19 FIBA World Championship in Prague as his team advanced to the semifinals. He averaged 18.2 points during the tournament and decided to enter the draft instead of playing collegiately in the U.S.

Exum, 18, had limited exposure until that event and did not work out for the Jazz in the weeks leading up to the draft. But his father, Cecil, won a national championship at North Carolina in 1982 with Michael Jordan and James Worthy.

Exum, who led his high school to the 2013 Australian School Championship, is believed to be able to play alongside Trey Burke at shooting guard or play the point.

Many experts pegged Arizona forward Aaron Gordon to be Utah’s selection but the Orlando Magic took Gordon at No. 4.

Last season the Jazz went 25-57, the team’s worst record since 1979-80 when they went 24-58 following the franchise’s relocation from New Orleans.

Earlier this month the Jazz hired Atlanta Hawks assistant Quin Snyder to replace coach Tyrone Corbin, who was let go earlier this year after three-plus seasons.

Snyder, who is making his debut as an NBA head coach, was the head coach at Missouri from 1999 to 2006, leading the Tigers to four NCAA tournaments, including an Elite Eight appearance in 2002.

On the eve of the draft, the Jazz also extended a qualifying offer to Gordon Hayward, making him a restricted free agent. The Jazz now can match any offer the 6-foot-8 guard/forward gets on the free-agent market.

Hayward averaged 16.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 5.2 assists in 77 games, all starts, with the Jazz last season.

Hood, 21, played one year at Mississippi State and then sat out a season before averaging 16.1 points and shooting 42 percent from behind the 3-point line as a team captain at Duke.

The 6-foot-8, 215-pound forward was named to the 2014 All-ACC second Team and is the first Duke player ever drafted by the Jazz, who recently hired former Duke player Quin Snyder as their head coach.

The left-handed sharpshooter gives Utah some insurance in case the team is not able to retain restricted free agent Gordon Hayward. Hood can score off the dribble and is regarded as a good defender.

Jazz select Stokes, send him to Memphis

The Utah Jazz selected Tennessee forward Jarnell Stokes with the 35th pick in the NBA draft on Thursday night, then dealt him to the Memphis Grizzlies.

Memphis sends the Jazz a second-round pick in the 2016 draft in exchange for Stokes, a 6-foot-8, 260-pound post player who averaged 15.1 points and 10.6 rebounds as a junior last season and collected nearly four offensive rebounds a game.

He also set a Tennessee school record with 392 rebounds and was named to the All-SEC First Team. He had 22 double-doubles.